“‘It’s a Language Variation, and It Has Its Own Structure”: Our podcast features the voices of 14 pre- and in-service teachers talking about what they have learned about language variation in the classroom and how it has positively impacted their teaching and helped them better communicate with their students.

On language variation and identity: View this TED talk by Jamila Lyiscott, a “tri-tongued orator.” In her powerful spoken-word essay “Broken English,” she celebrates — and challenges — the three distinct flavors of English she speaks with her friends, in the classroom and with her parents. As she explores the complicated history and present-day identity that each language represents, she unpacks what it means to be “articulate.”

Teaching Tolerance, “a place to find thought-provoking news, conversation and support for those who care about diversity, equal opportunity and respect for differences in schools” — the site includes classroom activities

Culture in the Classroom: A short article and video about incorporating culture into curriculum at a high school on South Dakota’s Lakota Rosebud Reservation, with further resources for addressing cultural myth

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Our latest book”Between the Rhetoric and Reality” Lauriat Press; Simpkins & Simpkins,2009; covers in detail the history of the only scientifically proven dialect reading program”Bridge:A Cross-Cultural Reading Program..The program was field tested by Houghton Mifflin Publishers in 1977, and was found to raise the reading scores of functionally illiterate, Black inner-city students by 6.2 months for 4months of instruction..